3Mastering Facilitation: Behavioural Techniques in Facilitation

Presenting naked is connecting and engaging with an audience, whether three people or 3000, in a way that is direct, honest and clear.

Teachers have been taught that the best visual aid is the teacher himself or herself. Likewise in facilitation, the best tool that the facilitator has is his or her person. As articulated in the introductory quote above, the facilitator teaches more through being than doing.

In my years of facilitating groups and in all the extensive trainings and preparations, I have learned that facilitation engages my whole being, all my senses, all my feelings and intuitions, all my energies and skills. But there are certain facilitation principles that stand ...

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